⛓️‍💥🪨 Kill Creatures 🪨⛓️‍💥

• Rory Power @itsrorypower

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On the one-year anniversary of Nan’s three friends going missing in the Saltcedar Canyon, the town holds a vigil for the three lost girls. But the memorial service is interrupted when one of the missing-presumed-dead girls shows up, sending the town in turmoil. Everyone is overjoyed – everyone except Nan, that is. Because she’s the one who killed them.

What an insane premise!! I was hooked from the very first page, because if that doesn’t make you want to turn the pages, I don’t know what will! Occasionally with these books that have crazy plot hooks, the story itself doesn’t deliver, but this wasn’t the case here. With flashbacks layered upon the real-time narrative, this book is twisty and fast-paced as heck. The scandal, the four girls’ relationship, the unreliable narrator, everything will have you on the edge of your seat, not knowing who to trust.

The backdrop of the canyon suited the book’s atmosphere – intense, mercurial, dangerous and deadly. The frenzied obsession of teenage girls’ friendship was placed at the forefront of the story, an element I loved. I also loved Nan’s narration – being inside her head was the most disturbing, turbulent rollercoaster of emotions.

After this, I will definitely be reading more of Rory Power’s backlist, and I’m excited to have discovered a new YA thriller author. I’d recommend for fans of Holly Jackson, Cynthia Murphy and Karen M. McManus, looking to get their next thriller fix!

Kill Creatures is out June 5th! Thanks to Scholastic UK and NetGalley for the digital ARC!